Lebanon

Who Will Do Lebanon’s Job?

The Trilateral Framework can move forward only after a third party that independently verifies, for Israel, that Lebanon has fulfilled its responsibilities in a pilot zone.

Hezbollah’s Shadow Economy in Post-Assad Syria

Syria says it thwarted Hezbollah plot; Israel likely target

On September 29, Syria’s Internal Security Forces (ISF) announced that the agency, in coordination with the General Intelligence Directorate, had “thwarted a sabotage plot in the Yarmouk Basin in Daraa”...

Two Years After Nasrallah’s Death, Hezbollah Is Outsourcing its Survival and Revival

Two years after Israel assassinated Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah finds itself commemorating its dead leader from a weaker position. Israel has killed thousands of Hezbollah...

Opposing Peace With Israel Helps Preserve Hezbollah’s Power

Lebanese Shia activists claiming to oppose Hezbollah have made their way to Washington, where they met U.S. decision-makers who believed that their guests were advancing peace. The catch is that these...

Islamic State suspects extradited or arrested in Lebanon, Canada, Australia, and the US

On September 23, media reports emerged that Lebanese Army Intelligence had arrested a suspected Islamic State member in northern Lebanon after placing him under surveillance. During questioning, the individual...

Lebanon’s Pretend Peace with Israel Revives Arafat’s Playbook

What is the point of strengthening the LAF if internal dialogue is the only tool Beirut intends to use to restore state sovereignty?

How Hezbollah reframed the battle for Ali al Taher as Israel advanced

Nearly a week after demolishing Hezbollah’s underground complex at Ali Al Taher in south Lebanon, the Israel Defense Forces on September 16 disclosed new details about its roughly three-month...

America has never been subservient to Israel

The fact remains that what brings the democratic allies together is worth far more than the issues dividing them.

8 Questions Facing the United Nations at UNGA 81

The United Nations was formed “to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war.” Yet more armed conflicts rage worldwide today than at any point since the world body’s formation at the end...

The War Inside the War

Review of 'In The War Room' by Yonah Jeremy Bob & Elliot Kaufman

Syria’s military is rebuilding, but foreign influence may slow security progress

Foreign influence in the Syrian military, chiefly Turkish and Russian, combined with the continued presence of extremist elements within its ranks, will constrain Damascus’s ability to take steps consistent...

LAF-Hezbollah coordination and the limits of Lebanon’s disarmament effort

Israel assesses with “fairly high probability” that the Lebanese military is coordinating its activity in Lebanon’s disarmament pilot zones with Hezbollah, Israel’s Channel 14 reported on...

Is Hezbollah finished, or just adapting?

Palestinians Must Heed the Lesson of Nasser’s Aswan Dam

Real progress for Palestinians and the wider Arab world requires breaking free from emotional gridlock and making peace.

IDF destroys Hezbollah underground command complex at Ali al Taher, withdraws from ridge

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on September 10 that its 36th Division destroyed more than two kilometers of Hezbollah underground infrastructure beneath southern Lebanon’s Ali al Taher...

Israel Razes Hilltop Hezbollah Stronghold, Securing Buffer Zone in South Lebanon

After a siege lasting nearly three months, Israeli forces are now in control of a strategic hilltop in southern Lebanon dubbed Iran’s “second front” against the Jewish state. The Ali al-Taher...

Previewing the 2026 UN General Assembly

The UK Sanctions Hezbollah’s Shadow Bank. Lebanon Should Shut It Down.

The United Kingdom has put Hezbollah’s shadow bank in its crosshairs. On September 8, British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband announced sanctions on “Lebanese Hezbollah’s financing arm, al-Qard al-Hassan...

Lebanese Army details pilot zone arms seizures, claims operational control

The Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) on September 9 issued what appears to be its first official, public accounting of weapons and munitions confiscated during operations in Zawtar al Gharbiyeh, Froun,...